Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overweight and love it. I eat and drink what I please. To hell with the physical-fitness fanatics...
Some A. & P. stores and other supermarkets will knock about 20? a Ib. off retail prices this week. But because of inflation, only those who drink much stronger stuff expect a return of those $1.46-a-lb. levels of two years...
...raunchy, sticky-floored hole designed for people who want to get loaded as fast and as cheaply as possible. If you don't mind being proofed at the door, and fighting your way through a forest of sweaty, drunken bodies to a sticky table where you can drink, listen to blaring bad jukebox music and look at posters advertising specials on the walls, you'll like Father...
CANCER. Some forms of cancer are caused by such natural factors as heredity and viruses. But many cancers are brought on-especially in the industrialized parts of the world-by environmental factors. As the U.N. report explains, the cancers "relate to the air people breathe or the water they drink, to the environment in which they work or live, to their personal diet or way of life." In industrialized societies, environmental factors have already been proved to be responsible for up to 40% of all human cancers; for example, doctors have found a high incidence of an otherwise rare form...
Soft-core booze can be very profitable: a fifth of Cow-at 30 proof barely stronger than wine-can retail for $4. Americans still drink up 2.69 gallons of booze per capita annually and spend more than $30 billion a year on alcohol, but hard-liquor drinking appears to be declining. If yummy highs continue to be the vogue, liquor dealers' shelves should be loaded with creme de strawberry and tutti-frutti vodkas for some time to come...